Uncertainty surrounding a child’s paternity can cause significant complications in Family Court proceedings. In cases ...

Rachel Davenport, Director at AlphaBiolabs, said: “By combining refuge, community outreach and education, Nottinghamshire ...

An article covering the recent rollout of Pathfinder from a practitioner in Birmingham. This article initially focusses on ...

Mental health and wellbeing is becoming increasingly important not only within daily life but in family law cases. A family breakdown and/or disagreements between parents as to the arrangements for ...

Relationships have been in the news in 2018. Not only did we see two Royal weddings, but at the opposite end of the romance spectrum, in June the UK Supreme Court ruled that it was discriminatory not ...

This paper demonstrates that the assumption of accidental bruising in non-mobile infants being rare is not supported by research. It highlights weaknesses in the evidence-base and shows that between 0 ...

Our articles are written by experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics and professionals from a range of related disciplines. Family Law provides a ...

Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are frequently encountered by the Family Court when dividing property on divorce or dissolution of a Civil Partnership. But what are they, and how are ...

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 to come into force on 2 October 2017.

The practical implications of the judgment in Re FX [2017] EWCOP 36 – the first ever reported decision to consider questions of capacity in the context of Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic ...

'I’m a common-law wife' (No you’re not) 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the unexpected return from the dead of something terrifying. Hence at the end of Friday the 13th the seemingly dead ...

In this article Chloe Branton considers the current position regarding parental responsibility for married and unmarried fathers and outlines some recent and historic cases that have examined this ...